Michael Buelow of the Big Money Blog points out numerous examples where people have donated more money than legally allowed. To compensate for this, the perpetrators would change their donation, cutting it in two. They would keep one part of the donation in their own name. The other part would go in their wives' names, presumably with their permission.

Buelow finishes with this comparison, which shows the egregiousness of it all:

As strange – and unfair – as this may sound to casual readers who don’t follow campaign finance, Walker and other legislative and statewide officeholders and candidates have done this numerous times over the years.

Unfortunately, it’s usually allowed because the former state Elections Board and now the GAB decided that many of these donations can be split or readjusted after the fact because the state’s marital property law.

Kind of like telling the cop who stops you for speeding that you want half the fine and the points assigned to your spouse’s driving record because you both own the car.

Yeah, I bet that would work.

And here I thought the Teapublicans thought women were only good for extramarital affairs.